Category: Tech

My Mac Mini acting as a PLEX server was from late 2009 and had began stuttering when playing some recent high quality rips or transcoding.

It was time to upgrade.

Luckily I had an old i7-4790K processor laying around. I bought a case from amazon, and sourced a cheap 1150 motherboard locally. I also already had a 250gb SSD I wasn’t using. All I needed was some ram and I was in business.

I also wanted some form of storage and had heard about the ODroid HC2. I picked up the following gear from their site which came surprisingsly fast via DHL (a few days).

Once I had everything wired up, and running I booted to the default OS using the DHCP addresses they got. Then I changed the IP to something static DHCP on my dhcp server, then added DNS through PFsense so my shared drives would be resolvable by name. Shit’s gettin’ real now dawg.

Now add some files to your gluster drive on the plex server. Then take a look at both your odroids. You should see the file exists in /data/vol0 as well on each of them. Congratulations you now have a replicating filesystem spread out over your two Odroids and used by Plex for storage.

Now you should reboot all three devices to make sure everything comes up on a reboot, and that everything still functions. If it doesn’t check your logs and repeat anything above.

Recently I got an ASUS Radeon RX 580 to replace an NVidia Card I was tired of fighting and trying to make work properly. As it turns out, no video card is very easy to get working with Hackintosh!

Anyway, today the problem was after finally getting two monitors working the secondary monitor was booting with a weird rotation and was a pain in the ass to change each time I logged in because the mouse was about 5″ off location on that screen.